Los Angeles Times 500

Ontario Motor Speedway — January 1, 1980

Benny Parsons

Winner

200

Laps

Entries

Leaders

Benny Parsons won the 1980 Los Angeles Times 500 at Ontario Motor Speedway on January 1, 1980, leading 8 of 200 laps. Neil Bonnett finished second; Cale Yarborough rounded out the podium. The race featured 7 different leaders.

Race Details

Date

Tuesday, January 1, 1980

Track

Ontario Motor Speedway

Season

1980

Winner

Benny Parsons

Leaders

7 drivers

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Pos	Start	+/-	Driver	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Interval	Status	Led	Pts
1	4	+3	Benny Parsons	M.C. Anderson Racing		200	—	Running	8	180
2	3	+1	Neil Bonnett	Wood Brothers Racing	Mercury	200	—	Running	8	175
3	1	-2	Cale Yarborough	Junior Johnson & Associates		200	—	Running	65	170
4	5	+1	Bobby Allison	Bud Moore Engineering		200	—	Running	17	165
5	2	-3	Dale Earnhardt	Osterlund Motorsports		200	—	Running	3	160
6	11	+5	Lake Speed	Nelson Malloch (Owner)		199	—	Running	—	150
7	12	+5	Joe Millikan	RahMoc Enterprises		199	—	Running	—	146
8	10	+2	Terry Labonte	Hagan Enterprises		198	—	Running	—	142
9	18	+9	John Anderson	John Rebhan (Owner)		197	—	Running	—	138
10	21	+11	Buddy Arrington	Arrington Racing	Dodge	196	—	Running	—	134
11	22	+11	Bill Schmitt	Schmitt Racing		196	—	Running	—	130
12	20	+8	Glenn Jarrett	Hamby Racing		195	—	Running	—	0
13	28	+15	Stan Barrett	Ulrich Racing		194	—	Running	—	0
14	31	+17	J.D. McDuffie	McDuffie Racing		194	—	Running	—	121
15	16	+1	Dave Marcis	Marcis Auto Racing		192	—	Running	9	123
16	19	+3	Tommy Gale	Langley-Woodfield Racing		191	—	Running	—	115
17	27	+10	Cecil Gordon	Gordon Racing		191	—	Running	—	112
18	17	-1	Jody Ridley	Donlavey Racing		189	—	Running	—	109
19	35	+16	Rick McCray	McCray Motorsports		187	—	Running	—	106
20	36	+16	Don Waterman	Waterman Racing		186	—	Running	—	103
21	25	+4	Richard Childress	Richard Childress Racing		182	—	Running	—	100
22	39	+17	Henry Jones	Wawak Racing		178	—	Running	—	0
23	14	-9	Hershel McGriff	John Kieper (Owner)		158	—	DNF	—	94
24	30	+6	James Hylton	Hylton Engineering		145	—	DNF - Engine	—	91
25	7	-18	Darrell Waltrip	DiGard Motorsports		145	—	DNF - Engine	90	98
26	38	+12	Kevin Housby	Housby Racing		133	—	DNF	—	0
27	33	+6	Chuck Bown	John Kieper (Owner)	Dodge	120	—	DNF - Crash	—	0
28	37	+9	Jim Robinson	A.J. Kurten (Owner)		103	—	DNF	—	79
29	15	-14	Lennie Pond	Testa Racing		99	—	DNF	—	76
30	8	-22	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises		97	—	DNF - Engine	—	73
31	34	+3	Jimmy Means	Jimmy Means Racing		94	—	DNF - Engine	—	70
32	29	-3	Glenn Francis	Trent Francis (Owner)		91	—	DNF - Engine	—	67
33	23	-10	Kyle Petty	Petty Enterprises		81	—	DNF - Engine	—	64
34	32	-2	Joe Booher	Warren Racing	Dodge	78	—	DNF	—	0
35	42	+7	Glen Ward	Glen Ward (Owner)		77	—	DNF	—	58
36	13	-23	Roy Smith	Robert Beadle (Owner)		70	—	DNF - Engine	—	55
37	24	-13	D.K. Ulrich	Ulrich Racing		55	—	DNF - Engine	—	0
38	26	-12	Ronnie Thomas	Robertson Racing		47	—	DNF	—	49
39	9	-30	Donnie Allison	Kennie Childers (Owner)		31	—	DNF	—	46
40	40	—	Joe Ruttman	Jim Stacy Racing		29	—	DNF	—	0
41	6	-35	Harry Gant	Race Hill Farm Team		16	—	DNF - Engine	—	40
42	41	-1	Don Puskarich	Puskarich Racing		2	—	DNF - Engine	—	37